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Gisburn Forest
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Gisburn Forest in the parish of Gisburn Forest
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Gisburn Forest
Location in Ribble Valley Borough
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Gisburn Forest
Location in the Forest of Bowland
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Gisburn Forest
Location within Lancashire
Area17.9253 km2 (6.9210 sq mi)
Population151 (2011 census) [1]
•  Density 8/km2 (21/sq mi)
OS grid reference SD770556
Civil parish
  • Gisburn Forest
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Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town SKIPTON
Postcode district BD23
Dialling code 01729
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53°59′46″N2°21′04″W / 53.996°N 2.351°W / 53.996; -2.351 Coordinates: 53°59′46″N2°21′04″W / 53.996°N 2.351°W / 53.996; -2.351

Gisburn Forest is a civil parish in the Ribble Valley, in Lancashire, England. Mainly lying within the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, the parish includes the larger part of the village of Tosside and the hamlet of Grunsagill to the south. Historically, the parish lay within the West Riding of Yorkshire. It had a population of 151 at the 2011 Census. [1]

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The parish adjoins the Ribble Valley parishes of Easington, Bolton-by-Bowland and Paythorne along with Lawkland, Giggleswick, Rathmell, Wigglesworth and Halton West in the Craven district of North Yorkshire. [lower-alpha 1]

History

Near Brown Hills Beck on the western border of the parish is a bowl barrow thought to date from the late Neolithic or Bronze Age periods. It is an oval mound of earth, 40 by 30 metres (131 by 98 ft) and up to 10 metres (33 ft) high. There is another similar mound on the opposite side of the stream in Easington. [3] [4]

The manor of Gisburn Forest was part of the Percy Fee which was listed in the Domesday Book. [5] Matilda de Percy, the widow of William de Beaumont, 3rd Earl of Warwick gave the grazing rights and the right to take timber to Sawley Abbey in 1189. And by 1211, her grandnephew William de Percy, 6th Baron Percy donated the manor. [6] By 1561 the manor was among the former monastic lands owned by Henry Darcy, the son of Sir Arthur Darcy. Around the start of the 19th century the manor was claimed by Thomas Browne, who acquired the largest estate in the township from his relative Mary, the third wife of Sir Robert Burdett. [5] Grunsagill was the centre of this estate. [7]

Governance

The township of Gisburn Forest was part of the ancient parish of Gisburn, itself a part of the Western Division of Staincliffe Wapentake. [7] Gisburn Forest became a civil parish in 1866, becoming part of Bowland Rural District when it was formed in 1894. In 1938 an 175-hectare (432-acre) area in the north-west of the parish was transferred to Rathmell. [8] In 1974 it was transferred from the West Riding of Yorkshire to the Ribble Valley district of Lancashire.

Gisburn Forest shares a parish council with two other parishes, Sawley and Bolton-by-Bowland. [9] Along with Rimington, Middop, Gisburn, Paythorne, Newsholme and Horton, the parish forms the Gisburn, Rimington ward of Ribble Valley Borough Council. [2] [10]

Forestry

The parish shares its name with the largest woodland in Lancashire, which covers much of the north of the parish and extends west to the Stocks Reservoir in Easington, with a total area of 1,196 hectares (2,960 acres) in 2015. Forming part of the catchment area for the reservoir, today the land is largely owned by United Utilities, but since 1949 it has been leased by the Forestry Commission. Only an 8-hectare (20-acre) area called Park Wood is classified as ancient semi-natural woodland, with the rest mainly Sitka spruce, grown for timber production. [11] It is now a location for mountain-biking [12] , walking and horse-riding. [13]

See also

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References

Notes

  1. ↑ At the northern end the parish narrows to a point at an outcrop known as the Resting Stone. At this site five civil parishes meet, with Lawkland and Giggleswick only touching Gisburn Forest here. [2]

Citations

  1. 1 2 UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Gisburn Forest Parish (E04005259)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics . Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  2. 1 2 "Gisburn, Rimington". MARIO. Lancashire County Council. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
  3. ↑ Historic England. "Bowl barrow east of Brown Hills Beck (1008911)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  4. ↑ Historic England. "Bowl barrow west of Brown Hills Beck (1008910)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  5. 1 2 Whitaker, Thomas Dunham (1878), The history and antiquities of the deanery of Craven 3rd ed. (PDF), Dodson (Leeds) and Cassell, Petter & Galpin (London), pp. 49, 71, OCLC   504073084 , retrieved 15 January 2022
  6. ↑ McNulty, Joseph (2013), The Chartulary of the Cistercian Abbey of St Mary of Sallay in Craven (2 ed.), Cambridge University Press, p. 200, ISBN   9781108058797
  7. 1 2 "Gisburn". GENUKI. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  8. ↑ "Gisburn Forest Tn/CP through time". visionofbritain.org.uk. GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth. Retrieved 15 January 2022.
  9. ↑ "Bolton-by-Bowland, Gisburn Forest and Sawley Parish Council". Bolton-by-Bowland, Gisburn Forest and Sawley Parish Council. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  10. ↑ "Gisburn, Rimington". Ordnance Survey Linked Data Platform. Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 16 January 2022.
  11. ↑ "Gisburn Forest Plan 2015" (PDF). Forestry Commission. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
  12. ↑ "Gisburn Bike Trails". Gisburn Bike Trails.
  13. ↑ "Gisburn Forest and Stocks". Forestry Commission. Retrieved 14 January 2022.
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